3 Producing Spiritual Concreteness: Prayed Coats for Mary in the German Late Middle Ages

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments VII
3. Contents IX
4. Illustrations XI
5. Introduction: The Materiality and Immateriality of Things 1
6. 1 Intermedial Practice, Multisensory Perception: Lorenzo Monaco and the lavorii di mano around 1400 21
7. 2 Transporting the Holy City: Hans Tucher’s Letter from Jerusalem as Medium and Material Object 45
8. 3 Producing Spiritual Concreteness: Prayed Coats for Mary in the German Late Middle Ages 65
9. 4 How to Make a Knight: Reading Objects in the Ordene de chevalerie 91
10. 5 Of Blades and Bodies: Material Objects in the Alliterative Morte Arthure 111
11. 6 Barrow Agency: Reading Landscape in Felix’s Vita Guthlaci 125
12. 7 The Things Narrative Is Made Of: A Latourian Reading of the Description of Enite’s Horse in Hartmann of Aue’s Erec 153
13. 8 Community of Things: On the Constitution of the Ideal Kingdom of Crisa in Heinrich von Neustadt’s Apollonius von Tyrland 175
14. 9 Printing Things: Materiality and Immateriality in Hieronymus Brunschwig’s Liber de arte distillandi de simplicibus 193
15. 10 Seeing Like God: Envisioning History in Sixteenth-Century Iberia 211
16. List of Abbreviations 239
17. Bibliography 241
18. Contributor Biographies 265
19. Color Plates 269